Malcolm Moore is the Telegraph's Shanghai Correspondent. He arrived in China in July 2008 after three years in Italy as the Telegraph's Rome Correspondent. Before that, he was the paper's Economics Correspondent.

In fact, there are plenty of young artists and musicians, it's just that they are stashed away in their bedrooms across the city, twiddling with synthesisers and guitars or coming up with strokes of genius on their computers.

They don't have much money, so you won't see them out in the city's bars or plush galleries. Like so many Chinese kids, they live in a semi-online world.

One of the best places to catch them is at Neocha Edge, which is the English version of Neocha, an online space where artists can display their work. The guys who run it, Sean Leow and Adam Schokora, do an amazing job of filtering out the best work and highlighting it.

I strongly advise you to check out the whole site, and especially to read their recent interview with Sun Haipeng, the creator of Super Baozi Man. Sun's short videos have won him a lot of (deserved) attention, especially since he taught himself computer animation.

The government is very keen on encouraging animation, and has now set up specialist centres across the East Coast. Imagi, in Hong Kong is probably still the leading animation studio in China, but as Sun says in the interview – there are "a lot of people" now involved in CG on the mainland.

Baozi are the steamed meat buns you can find on any street corner in China, or indeed in whichever Chinatown is closest to you.